lative value is every day diminishing by the prodigious influx of wealth, real and artificial, which for fome time past has been pouring into this kingdom. Hitherto however I have found my income equal to my wants. It has enabled me to inhabit a good houfe in town for four months of the year, and to refide amongst my tenants and neighbours for the remaining eight with credit and hofpitality. I am indeed myfelf fo fond of the country, and fo averfe in my nature to every thing of hurry and buffle, that, if I confulted only my own tafte, I fhould never feel a wifh to leave the fhelter of my own oaks in the drearieft feafon of the year; but I looked upon our annual 'vifit to London as a proper compliance with the gayer difpofition of my wife, and the natural curiofity of the younger part of the family: befides, to fay the truth, it had its advantages in avoiding a round of dinners and card parties, which we muft otherwife have engaged in for the winter feafon, or have been branded with the appellation of unfociable. Our journey gave me an opportunity of furnishing my ftudy with fome new books and prints; and my wife of gratifying her neighbours with fome ornamental trifles, before their value was funk by becoming common, or of producing at her table, or in her furniture, fome new invented refinement of fashionable elegance. Qur hall was the first that was lighted by the lamp d' Argand; and I ftill remember how we were grati. fied by the astonishment of our guefts, when my wife with an audible voice called to the foot-man for the tongs to help to the afparagus with. We found it pleasant too to be enabled to talk of capital artifts and favourite actors; and I made the better figure in my political debates from having heard the molt popular fpeakers in the houfe. Once too, to recruit my wife's fpirits, after a tedious confinement from a lyingin, we paffed a feafon at Bath. In this manner therefore things went on very well in the main, till of late my family have difcovered that we lead a very dull kind of life; and that it is impoffible to exift with comfort, or indeed to enjoy a tolerable fhare of health, without fpending good part of every fummer at a Watering-place. I held out as long as I could. One may be allowed to refift the plans of diffipation, but the plea of health cannot decently be withstood. It was foon difcovered that my eldest daughter wanted bracing, and my wife had a bilious complaint, against which our family phyfician declared, that fea bathing would be particularly fervice able. Therefore, though it was my own private opinion that my daughters nerves might have been as well braced by morning rides upon the Northamptonshire hills, as by evening dances in the public rooms, and that my wife's bile would have been greatly leffened by compliance with her husband, I acquiefced; and preparations were made for our journey. Thefe indeed were but flight, for the chief gratification proposed in this scheme was, an entire freedom from care and form. We fhould find every thing rcquifite in our lodgings; it was of no confequence whether the rooms we should occupy for a few months in the fummer, were elegant or not; the fimplicity of a country life would be the more enjoyed by the little fhifts we should be put to; and all neceffaries would be provided in our lodgings. It was not therefore till after we had taken them, that we difcovered how far ready furnished lodgings were from affording every article in the catalogue of neceffaries. We did not indeed give them a very fcrupulous examination, for the place was fo full, that when we arrived late at night, and tired with our journey, all the beds at the inn were taken up, and an eafy chair and a carpet were all the accommodations we could obtain for our repofe. The next morning, therefore, we eagerly engaged the first lodgings we found vacant, and have ever fince been difputing about the terms, which from the hurry were not fufficiently afcertained; and it is not even yet fettled whether the little blue garret which ferves us as a powdering room, is ours of right or by favour. The want of all forts of conveniences is a conftant excufe for the want of all order and neatnefs, which is fo vifible in our apartment; and we are continually lamenting that we are obliged to buy things of which we have fuch plenty at home. It is my misfortune that I can do nothing without all my little conveniences about me; and in order to write a common letter I must have my ftudytable to lean my elbows on in fedentary luxury; you will judge therefore how little I am able to employ my leifure, when I tell you, that the only room they have been able to allot for my ufe is fo filled and crowded with my daughters hat boxes, band-boxes, wig-boxes, &c. that I can fcarcely move about in it, and am 1796.1 On Watering Places. this moment writing upon a fpare trunk 607 in all the arts of low cunning and chicane. The fpirit of greediness and rapacity is no where fo confpicuous as in lodging-houfes. At our feat in the country, our domeftic concerns went on as by clock-work; a quarter of an hour in a week fettled the bills, and, few tradef men wished, and none dared, to prac tife any imposition where all were known, and the confequence of their different behaviour must have been their being marked, for life, for encouragement or for diftruft. But here the continual fluctuation of company takes away all regard to character; the moft refpectable and ancient families have no influence any farther than as they fcatter their ready cafh, and neither gratitude nor refpect are felt where there is no bond of mutual attachment, befides the neceffities of the prefent day. I should be happy if we had only to contend with this ipirit during our prefent excurfion, but the effect it has upon fervants is moft pernicious. Qur family ufed to be remarkable for having its domeftics grow grey in its fervice, but this expedition has already corrupted them; two we have this evening parted with, and the reft have learned fo much of the tricks of their ftation, that we fhall be obliged to difcharge them as foon as return home. In the country, I had been accuftomed to do good to the poor; there are charities here too; we have joined in a fubfcription for a crazy poetefs, a raffle for the fupport of a fharper, who paffes under the title of a German Count, and a benefit play for a for want of a table. I am therefore driven to faunter about with the rest of the party; but instead of the fine clumps of trees, and waving fields of corn I have been accustomed to have before my eyes, I fee nothing but a naked beach, almoft without a tree, exposed by turns to the cutting eaftern blaft, and the glare of a July fun, and covered with a fand equally painful to the eyes and to the fect. The Ocean is indeed an object of unfpeakable grandeur; but when it has been contemplated in a storm and in a calm, when we have feen the fun rife out of its bofom and the moon filver its extended furface, its variety is exhaufted, and the eye begins to require the fofter and more interefting fcenes of cultivated nature. My family have indeed been perfuaded feveral times to enjoy the fea ftill more, by engaging in a little failing party; but as, unfortunately, Northamptonshire has not afforded them any opportunity of becoming feafoned failors, thefe parties of pleafure are always attended with the most dreadful ficknefs. This likewife I am told is very good for the conftitution; it may be fo for aught I know, but I confefs I am apt to imagine that taking an emetic at home would be equally falutary, and I am fure it would be more decent. Nor can I help imagining that my youngest daughter's lover has been lefs affiduous, fince he has contemplated her in the indelicate fituation of a fhip cabin. I have endeavoured to amufe myself with the company, but without much fuccefs; it confifts of a few very great people, who make a fet by themfelves, and think they are entitled, by the freedom of a watering place, to indulge themfelves in all manner of polifonneries, and the reft is a motley group of fharpers, merchants' clerks, kept miftreffes, idle men, and nervous women. I have been accustomed to be nice in my choice of acquaintance, efpecially for my family; but the greater part of our connections here, are fuch as we should be afhamed to acknowledge any where elfe, and the few we have feen above ourselves will equally difclaim us when we meet in town next winter. As to the fettled inhabitants of the place, all who do not get by us view us with diflike, because we raife the price of provifions; and thofe who do, which, in one way or other, comprehends all the lower clafs, have loft every trace of rural fimplicity, and are verfed we gentleman on board the Hulks. Unfortunately, to balance thefe various expences, this place, which happens to be a great refort of fmugglers, affords daily opportunities of making bargains. We drink fpoiled teas, under the idea of their being cheap, and the little room we have is made lefs by the reception of cargoes of india taffetys, fhawl-mulins, and real chintzes. All my authority here would be exerted in vain; for, I do not know whether you know it or no, the buying of a bargain is a temptation which it is not in the nature of any woman to refiit. I am in hopes however the bufinefs may receive fome little check from an incident which happened a little time fince: an acquaintance of our's returning from Margate, had his carriage feized by the Cuf tom-houfe officers, on account of a piece of filk, which one of his female coufins, without his knowledge, had stowed in it and and it was only releafed by its being proved that what the had bought with To much fatisfaction as contraband, was in reality the home-bred manufacture of Spital-fields. My family used to be remarkable for regularity in their attendance on public worship; but that too here is numbered amongit the amufements of the place. Lady Huntingdon has a Chapel, which fometimes attracts us; and when nothing promifes us any particular entertainment, a tea-drinking at the rooms, or a concert of what is called facred mufic, is fufficient to draw us from a Church, where no one will remark either our abfence or our prefence. Thus we daily become more lax in our conduct, for want of the falutary reftraint impofed upon us by the confcioufnefs of being looked up to as an example by others. In this manner, fir, has the feafon paft away. I spend a great deal of money and make no figure; I am in the country and fee nothing of country fimplicity, or country occupations; i am in an obfcure village, and yet cannot ftir out without more obfervers than if I were walking in St. James's Park; I am cooped up in leis room than my own dog-kennel, while my fpacious halls are injured by tanding empty; and I am paying for taftelefs unripe fruit, while my own choice wall-fruit is rotting by bushels under the trees. In recompenfe for all this, we have the fatisfaction of knowing that we occupy the very rooms which my Lord -- had juft quitted; of picking up anecdotes, true or falfe, of people in high life; and of feizing the ridicule of every character as they pafs by us in the moving thow-glafs of the place, a paftime which often affords us a good deal of mirth, but which, I confefs, I can never join in without reflecting that what is our amufement is their's likewife. As to the great oftenfible object of our excurfion, health, I am afraid we cannot boaft of inuch improvement. We have had a wet and cold fummer; and thefe houfes, which are either old tenements vamped up, or new ones flightly run up for the accomodation of bathers during the feafon, have more contrivances for letting in the cooling breezes than for keeping them out, a circumstance which I fhould prefume fagacious phyficians do not always attend to, when they order patients from their own warm, compact, fubftantial houfes, to take the air in country lodgings, of which the best apartments, during the winter, have only been inhabited by the rats, and where the poverty of the landlord prevents him from laying out more in repairs than will ferve to give them a fhowy and attractive appearance. Be that as it may, the rooms we at prefent in-habit are fo pervious to the breeze, that in fpite of all the ingenious expedients of lifting doors, paiting paper on the infide of cupboards, laying fand bags, puttying crevices, and condemning clotetdoors, it has given me a fevere touch of my old rheumatifm, and all my family are in one way or other affected with it; my eldest daughter too has got cold with her bathing though the fea water never gives any body cold. In answer to thefe complaints, I am told by the good company here, that I have flayed too long in the fame air, and that now I ought to take a trip to the continent, and fpend the winter at Nice, which would complete the bufinefs. I am entirely of their opinion, that it would complete the bufinefs; and have therefore taken the liberty of laying my cafe before you; and am, fir, Your's &c, HENRY HOMELOVE, To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. SIR, WORKS of general utility juffly de mand the approbation of mankind, and thofe perfons to whom fociety are indebted for benevolent infitutions, convenient accommodations, or beneficial erections, have a greater claim on the gratitude and attachment of their cotemporaries, and on the veneration of pofterity, than cither the statesman or chieftain can pretend to, who in the cabinet or in the field concerts or executes measures which ftrengthen the hand of power by violating the principles of humanity, and the natural unalienable rights of our fellow beings! Few men who reflect credit on the prefent age, have ftronger pretenfions than Mr. BURDON, one of the worthy reprefentatives of the county of Durham, to the approbation and esteem of the public. With a view to benefit the community in the district in which he refides, a few years fince, he formed a moft excellent road between the opulent towns of Sunderland and Stockton, with fcarcely any pecuniary affiftance; by the completion of which the farmer is enabled to carry his produce to market with the greateft eafe and dispatch, and lands 1796.] Improvements by Mr. Burdon. lands have rapidly increafed in value beyond the most fanguine expectations of the refpective proprietors. Till, this communication was opened, the intercourfe between the two places was attended with equal hazard and difficulty, occafioned by low fwampy lands, and by a variety of other obftructions. Thefe evils are now happily remedied by the erection of bridges, and by a very extenfive caufeway, the execution of which reflects the higheft credit on the abilities and difcernment of the indefatigable projector. Castle Eden, the refidence of Mr. Burdon, is fituated in a country neither remarkable for its fertility nor population; to promote the former he is continually exerting thofe efforts which will affured ly lead to the accomplishment of his wishes; to complete the latter, and moft important defign, he has encouraged the erection of an extenfive cotton manufactory, in which multitudes of men, women, and children, are continually employed. The numerous habitations for the perfons engaged in this undertaking, and for fhopkeepers, to fupply them with every neceffary article, has given the portion allotted for this purpofe the appearance of a confiderable fettlement. A market is alfo eftablished, which is plentifully fupplied every Thurfday with meat, vegetables, &c. of the best quality. Schools are formed, under proper management, for the inftruction of the younger members of this fociety, who are carefully principled both in their religious and moral obligations; conftant attendance on divine fervice is ftrictly enjoined on all who are not difabled by fick nefs or other infirmities; and every circumftance indicates that if public events are favourable, this place will quickly rife to an important ftation in this northern part of the ifland. The church, which became too fmall to contain the increase of inhabitants, has within a few months been al most entirely rebuilt on a very enlarged and commodious plan, at the expence of Mr. Burdon; and the regulations which are framed for the good and orderly government of the numerous body engaged in the manufactory, will, under Provi dence, be productive of thofe confequences which will enfure their eternal and temporal profperity! In a word, the worthy proprictor of Caftle Eden ftands highly diftinguished as a valuable member of the community, and appears anxious to emulate, by ufeful under 609 takings, the celebrated Mr. Charwell, fo elegantly characterized by the author of the Guardian, in the ninth number of that excellent compofition. The very material advantages which were immediately experienced on opening a communication between Stockton and Sunderland, fuggefted the idea of forming a road between the latter place and Newcaftie; for that purpose Mr. Burdon requefted a meeting of the gentlemen of property, to whom he pointed out the benefits likely to refult from the undertaking, and propofed entering into a fubfcription to defray the neceffary expences. It was afferted on this occafion that the tolls which were to be collected under an act of parliament to be obtained for that purpose, would affuredly, in a fhort fpace, pay an extraordinary intereft for the money advanced; yet his arguments, fupported as they were by reafon and by experience, did not appear to carry conviction, and the affiftance afforded him was, in every point of view, truly inconfiderable. Far from being difcouraged by the timidity of those who were lefs fanguine, he determined to carry the plan into execution, even though he should be left to fuftain the whole of the expenditure to complete the great defign. It became neceffary to erect a bridge over the river Wear, which has recently been executed in the vicinity of Sunderland, in a manner which inconteftibly evidences the public fpirit, and the fuperior genius of Mr. B. This noble ftructure is undoubtedly fuperior to any thing of the kind at prefent exifting in Europe. It confifts of one fpacious arch, 236 feet in fpan, and 100 in height: the navigation is by no means impeded, as fhips of confiderable burthen can fail under it, without lowering their op-mafts; the buttreffes are of ftone, the bridge itfelf of caft iron, excepting a fmall proportion, which is wrought; the boldness and elegance of the defign equally gratifies and furprizes every judicious and every curious beholder; and has been executed at the expence of about 25,000i. of which fum 19,000l. has been advanced by Mr. Bur don. Your's, &c. Sunderland, Aug. 22, 1796. E. W. certain other languages therein fpecified; I fhall now lay before you a few particulars, in order to give fome idea of its connection with the Hebrew. In the following comparifon, I have adhered moftly to the correfponding forms of expreffion; for it would exceed your limits to fhow the identity between fimple words, as they are fo numerous; and this mode too, if tolerably well fe lected, gives a much greater illuftration to the fubject. BAN (Welsh) what is raifed, reared, or confpicuous;-raifed, exalted, high. -Banau, heights, confpicuous things, or heads; Beni, raifed or reared ones.Hebrew, BEN, a fun; BENI ELIM, fons of powers, 1. e. mighty ones; Welfb, BENI ELYV, reared ones of powers. BANAU (Wel) to raife, to rear, to erect, to make lofty, or confpicuous.--Banu, to rear, to make lofty; to become high.-Hebrew, BANAH, "I may obtain children" "I may be builded"; Web, A-BANWY, that I may rear; Y-BANWY, may be raised. ,ABAN AH אבנה ; to build BEICHIAW (Welb) to cry, to roar, to wail.—Hebrew, BECHAH, to weep. CAN (Welsh) with, or in poffeffion ;— CANIAW, to poffefs.-Hebrew, CANAI, to poffefs. CHWAN (Welsh) animal motion, activity; quick, brifk.-Hebrew, מי הוא זה מלך הכבוד .Hebrew יהוה צבאות הוא מלך הכבוד EL. CHAI, God אל חי - CHAI, life סלה ; of life;-Welf, El chwai, intellectual power of the quick. CHWEIAW (Welsh) to be brifk or quick; to make quick-Hebrew, CHAIAH, to live-' 'MA MECHAIEH METHIM, thou doft animate the dead ones; Welb, MYCHWEII METHION, thou doft quicken thofe that have failed. 1. Mc hua ze malec hacâvodh Jehovah tfebâoth hua malec hacâvodh.-Selah! 2. Pyyw-0 fy maelocy-cavad 1-A-YWvo favwvod yw-o maeloc y-cavad.—Sela. "Who is the king of glory? The Lord of hofts, he is the king of glory.Selah." I. 2. Who is be that is poffeffor of attainment? I THAT AM HIM of bofts, he is the poffeffor of attainment-BEHOLD ! The following are fome more Welsh words fimilar in found to the name-IE |